This year has been the strangest year of my life. The early winter and spring of this Year saw the deaths of many celebrities, David Bowie, Victoria Wood, Prince, Alan Rickman, Terry Wogan, Ronnie Corbett, Paul Daniels and David Guest just to name a few. I particularly liked David Guest, I felt he was famous because he was a likeable person.
In the same spring my Granny passed away with them. I always thought she was a star and larger than life character. I promise to use her name in one way or another. Perhaps to name one of my future children or for an orphanage I may open when I am rich.
I went to Peru to visit my extended family soon after my granny died. I got so see some of peru. It is a very interesting country I must say and I am pleased that the family axcepted my as one of them.
In june I was summoned by my Government to vote in a referendum to choose our status in the EU. As a long term Eurosceptic I voted to leave, the main reason was because I saw the EU trading bloc as a tax evasion scheme for multinational corporations. Knowing Eurosceptics are a minority in Britain, I didn't expect the leave vote to win. But it Did! I guess many Remain voters were too lazy to pause their playstations and walk to the polling booths as they were mostly young people.
The weeks and months that followed were very tense. Remain voters and the mainstream press aggressively mocked the leave voters and categorised them as fools, haters and bigots. At the same time the currency devalued by over 10% because of a drop in investment and racists across the country surfaced and openly attacked foreign nationals. There was huge political upheaval and David Cameron quit as leader. Theresa May took the helm and become the UK's second female prime minister. She fired half the cabinet, I'm guessing because they didn't have vision for a non EU Britain.
The middle east was on fire with conflict as it has been for all 34 years of my life and the many years of my parents lives. This time it was Syria and Iraq at war and there was also conflict in Yemen and Libya. All I can ask is will there be one year when there is no war in the middle east? I stay hopeful. The North East and north West countries blamed each other for making the conflict worse. Somehow I feel the blame goes both ways.
In the Autumn of this year my Fiance came over to be with me and we got married in the winter on the 26th of November. I never married before and I hope this is the first and last time I marry. It is a new experience for me and for her. I was convinced that I would need to take a loan from the bank to pay for my wedding but my family stepped in and helped me greatly. My uncle Kola and Aunty Bola made a very big contribution and even brought in a cocktail maker to make cocktails for the guests. My other uncle flew her from Nigeria just to be at the wedding.
Many celebrities continued to die throughout the year, Vidal Castro the iconic Cuban leader died a day before my wedding and George Michael's died on christmas day.
The English winter on both sides of the year was freakishly mild, there was hardly any snow or frost. I wonder what would happen if the giant warm under ocean river known as the gulf stream were to shift away from us. We would be in for some very cold winters if it did. It would be very nice if we could store heat from the summer and release it in the winter somehow.
The family vending machine business has doubled in size. But it was small to start with so I am hoping that it will grow very fast from now on.
I am grateful because my family are intact and in reasonable health. I am also happy that I have a chance for a better life and that I am married and with hope will have a new family of my own.
I also hope that we can kill every cancer cell and cure the disease for good. Along with aids and all other lethal diseases.
